Police in Kitui County have apprehended five individuals, including a serving police officer, for allegedly pretending to be officers from the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC).
The group, which included four men and one woman, was caught while attempting to extort money from the County’s Director of Revenue Collection.
The suspects reportedly entered the Director’s office, claiming to be conducting a crackdown on corrupt county officials.
They then escorted the director to her home, accusing her of hiding large sums of embezzled county funds there.
The Director, suspicious of the five, notified the police, who quickly arrived and arrested the suspects.
Kitui Central Police OCPD Peter Karanja stated that during the interrogation, the suspects were found with EACC staff badges, each labeled with the title “CEO“.
“We sent our officers and when they met the purported anti-graft watchdog officers, they were somehow suspicious.
They brought them to the Station and we were able to establish that the badges they had were all reading CEO of the EACC,” Karanja told Citizen Digital.
Karanja has since reached out to the EACC’s Eastern Regional Manager to confirm the identities of the suspects, who are now in custody at the Kitui Central Police Station.
“We have contacted the Eastern Regional regional manager who is sending his team to come and verify whether these are genuine employees of the EACC,” he said.
“We are holding the five suspects and are still processing them.”
The OCPD also urged Kitui residents to stay vigilant and report any individuals posing as government officers.
“Should there be people purporting to be police officers who are not able to ID themselves positively, kindly call the police or DCI for action to be taken,” he said.
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